Elena and Her Men
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Jean Renoir
A Supreme Artist: Pascal Mérigeau on “Jean Renoir: A Biography”
The rules of Jean Renoir’s “Game”
Jean-Paul Belmondo: 1933-2021
Telluride 2015: Shorts by Godard, Varda and Renoir
Jeanne Moreau as star and as director
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
The 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of the 20th Century
Is it anti-American to like non-English movies?
You don’t dismiss the dean
Who matters?
Blurb-a-thon 2007
Cannes 2026: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, Diary of a Chambermaid, La Perra
Book Excerpt: STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH, Edited by B.C. Wallin
The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Book Excerpt: Foreword to The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by David Bordwell
Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey
How The Phantom Menace Predicted Hollywood’s Prequel Future
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Create the Legend: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives
Cannes 2021: The French Dispatch, JFK Revisited, Three Floors
The End of an Era: Norman Lloyd, 1914-2021
In Memory of Roger Ebert: Films About Connection
Bertrand Tavernier: 1941-2021
The Best Current Source for Streaming Classic Movies is … Amazon Prime?
NYFF 2018: La Flor
Believing in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
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Emphatic and Abundant Love: The Work of Jonathan Demme
Voyeurs to Adult Life: Ira Sachs on “Little Men”
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 23, 2016
“La Lupa”: A Celebration of Anna Magnani
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Jacques Rivette: 1928-2016
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
Connected to the Soil: Charles Burnett on “To Sleep with Anger”
Maureen O’Hara: 1920-2015
Telluride 2015: A Preview, Believe It or Not
You Must Remember This
A Trip Through Film History with Norman Lloyd
Cinematic Poetry: The Restoration of “The Apu Trilogy”
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 23, 2015
If We Picked the Winners 2015: Best Original Screenplay
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 11, 2015
Book Excerpt: “Mise en scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art” by Adrian Martin
NYFF 2014: Opening Weekend Films “La Sapienza” and “Gone Girl” Display Artistic Depth of Fest
Not the Oscars: the French stay cool when they award their greatest film
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
The great movies (almost) nobody voted for
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
The best greatest movies ever list
Opening Shots Quiz 2: Answers
It’s the End of the Cinema, as we know it (then and now)
It Ain’t the Meat (It’s the Motion): Thoughtson movie technique and movie criticism
You better you better you best: The better of the best lists
Cinema through a cloudy eye
The best damned film list of them all
A few calm words about The List
Cannes #6: Of emotion and its absence
CIFF: All our capsule reviews
Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012: In Memoriam
‘Gangs’ all here for Scorsese
Saluting a Master Of the Cinema, Yasujiro Ozu
Hitchcock: He Always Did Give Us Knightmares
Interview with Roman Polanski
Stark beauty, dark vision
